Mona Lisa for the ages. Review of parodies and recreations of the famous painting by Da Vinci

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The great genius of Leonardo da Vinci! For several centuries in a row, his works have given food for thought not only to scientists and historians, inventors and philosophers, but also to representatives of the creative intelligentsia. Each of them wants to touch the legend, some out of curiosity, others in the hope of drawing inspiration from the great maestro. And more than others goes to the mysterious Gioconda, this immortal museum of artists, sculptors, illustrators and designers. She has already gone through a lot: she was painted with wine, coffee and tea, laid out from garbage and food, built from chocolate and Lego. In the image of Mona Lisa, they portrayed politicians and musicians, cartoon characters and cinema. She turned into an American, Chinese, alien, and this is not a complete list of those incarnations in which she had to visit. A variety of parodies, imitations and re-creations the famous Mona Lisa and will be devoted to our today's review.

Dearest Mona Lisa

A copy of this famous painting, created in China, is considered the most expensive in the world and costs more than tens of millions of dollars. It is made of precious stones that the client of the painting and its creators have purposefully collected over the past thirty years. As a result, their total weight was more than 100 thousand carats. A unique copy of the Mona Lisa, which experts estimate at $ 135 million, was presented to the public in one of the shopping centers in the Chinese city of Shenyang.

Mona Lisa from Lego

From the Lego constructor, you can build not only a copy of the Olympic Village and the Olympics Aquatic Center 2012 pool, but also recreate such masterpieces of world art as the Roman Colosseum and the famous La Gioconda. Different authors, different execution techniques, but Mona Lisa remains the same beautiful and mysterious muse, even being a mosaic of Lego bricks.

Mona Lisa from food

The people demand bread and circuses at all times. But not necessarily in order to get enough physically - some representatives of the creative intelligentsia prefer to create various objects of modern art from food. And of course, one of them will certainly swing at the immortal masterpiece of the famous Leonardo. So, the mouth-watering Mona Lisa becomes an installation of sausage, toast, jam, and sometimes a full-fledged Japanese lunch of rice, seaweed and tofu cheese.

Mona Lisa from candy

Looking at the copy of La Gioconda, designed by Californian artist Kristen Cumings, is a real temptation for those with a sweet tooth. Especially for those who love jelly candies. After all, it was them that the artist used as a material for her unusual reproduction. Her Mona Lisa is a huge (4 x 6 feet) mosaic of multi-colored Jelly Belly® gummies, which took the author about 9,000-12,000 pills and 50-60 hours of work. To keep the mosaic in place, the artist sprays glue onto the canvas, where she lays out a piece of candy art, and then covers the finished work with acrylic to heighten the shine and preservation.

Mona Lisa from coffee

Inspiration and coffee, night and creativity go hand in hand. And it is not surprising that from time to time artists create their works from this aromatic drink. Someone draws with coffee stains, someone prefers to work with coffee directly in a cup, but whatever method a talented author chooses, he will certainly get something unusual.

Mona Lisa? Mona Leia

Leonardo would probably be surprised to see his La Gioconda in this form. How surprised the Star Wars characters would be if they saw who Princess Leia had become. This funny parody called "Mona Leia" was painted by artist Jim Hance, a big fan of both the Star Wars saga and the work of Leonardo da Vinci.

Mona Lisa on dusty glass

The artist Scott Wade, known for his preference to paint not with paint on paper, but with brushes on dusty car windows, is able to turn a dirty car into a museum piece in a few hours. All that is needed for this is a dirty windshield and a little inspiration - and an ordinary unwashed car will become a work of art, because its glass will be decorated with a reproduction of the mysterious and mysterious La Gioconda.

Mona Lisa from ordinary grass

In South London, there is one of the world's most unusual meadows covered with the most ordinary lawn grass, which is located on the site of the most ordinary Londoner Tanya Ledger. In this clearing, through the efforts of an artist and gardener named Chris Naylor, a huge reproduction of the Mona Lisa appeared, cut with the most common garden tools.

Mona Lisa in IT style

And the employees of the ASUS headquarters can boast that they have the most innovative reproduction of the La Gioconda. After all, to reproduce it, the authors needed the insides of several dozen computers - and here she is, the beautiful Mona Lisa, "painted" with computer chips.